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Church of Scotland in Canada A HISTORIOAL AND STATISTICAL REPORT OJ' THJi PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CANADA, IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, FOR THE YEAR 1866. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SYNOD. ~O'lttwd: PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET 1867. To Messrs. THOMAS PATON, WILLIAM DARLING, JAMES JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER BUNTIN, JOHN RANKIN, JAMES S. HUNTER, JOHN L. MORRIS, and GEORGE STEPHEN, the Committee appointed by the Synod, at _Ottawa, in 1865, to manage the Schemes of the Church j to the Reverends DR. MATHIESON, DR. JENKINS, and ANDREW PATON, who were associated with them; and to the memory of the late Mr. JOHN GREENSHIELPS, who was the Convener:of the Committee, this Report is respectfully DEDICATED. INTRODUCTORY. THIS Report will be found to contain historical facts of interest, and it embraces statistical returns, more or less complete, from every Congrega­ tion of the Church. It had been easy to produce a more flattering and highly coloured statement,. but this would not have advanced the end con­ templated-the welfare of the Church. I have been careful to exaggerate nothing, "nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice;" my single aim has been to render what follows thoroughly reliable. Notwithstanding what is advancsd in respect of inadequate support to ministers and mi~sions-this is deplored in all Churches-on the whole, we have reason to " thank God and take courage." Our Church occupies an honoured posi­ tion among the Churches of Canada, and has a large number of warmly attached adherents, who are able and willing to do all that may reasonably be asked of them if the proper means are employed to enlist their prac­ tical sympathies. For the information herewith submitted I am mainly indebted to the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Church. I thank them, everyone, as well for their great personal kindness as for their willing co-operation with me. Dr. Mathieson laid me under special obligations by placing at my disposal valuable manuscripts, and supplying details that could not have been otherwise obtained. Mr. Dobie gave me the benefit of his exper­ ience as Convener of the Committee on Statistics. The Professors of Queen's College kindly supplied all the information given about that Institution, and our obliging Synod Clerk, besides assisting in other ways, furnished me with the histories in 1\1. S., bearing date 1833, of most of the Congregations then existing, of which I am only sorry that the limited space at my disposal prevented me from making more copious extracts. I thank the Very Reverend Principal Snodgrass, for his great patience in carefully revising these pages for the Press, for his corrections and reproofs, and for access to the well-filled shelves of the Library of Queen's College. The following works may be mentioned as possessing a historical interest in connection with the Church: Letters, by the Rev. William Bell, and by his son, the Rev. Andrew Bell, published in 1824 i The Canadian ~aga­ zine, in 4 volumes, 1823-25 i the Canadian Review, 2 vols., 1824-25 j The Canadian Miscellany, the first periodical published in the interests of the Church of Scotland in Canada, and of which only six numbers appeared in 1828, the copy in the library being the only one I have seen j the Christian Examiner and Presbyterian Review, 4 vols., 1837-40, which was conducted by the late Dr. McGill, then of Niagara j A Retrospect of 36 years' Missionary Labour, by J. Carruthers, 1861. Each of these INTRODUCTORY. supplied its quota of material. The printed Minutes of Synod, from 1831 to the present time; A Digest of the Minutes of Synod of the Canada. Presbyterian Church, by the Rev. Alexander F. Kemp, together with the Minutes of the United Synod of Upper Canada from 183] until their union with us in 1840, have all been carefully examined, as well as the 20 volumes of the Presbyterian, commencing with 1848. In addition to these sources of information, the older records of all the Presby­ teries have been examined and placed under contribution. While every precaution that seemed possible was taken to ensure correctness of detail, it is more than likely that some slight inaccuracies may have crept in. The writer will esteem it a kindness if parties observing such will furnish him with the corrections for a second edition, which is sure to be required. To avoid repetition, figures in brackets have been introduced which indicate the numbers of the Congregations in connection with which addi­ tional particulars are to be obtained. The Alphabetical List at the close, supplies, so far as is known to the writer, the names of all who have been Ministers of the Church during the last 100 years; their nationality; the dates of ordination; the charges in which they officiated, and the Universities at which they were educated. If additional names or dates occur to any reader I hope to be informed of them. It is regretted that from want of full information, the Churches in the Maritime Provinces are not included in this Report; it is intended, how­ ever, to publish some account of them in separate form hereafter. It only remains for me here to express my devout acknowledgments to a kind Providence that permitted not the slightest accident to befall me in all my journeyings. But for one event I should look back upon the time spent in this work with unmingled pleasure. That event was the death of him who, I may ~ay it without disrespect to any other, was at once the originator and the principal promoter of a plan for furthering the interests of the Church of which he had long been a useful, active, and consistent mem­ ber, and at the same time a most liberal supporter. He, who of all others was most sanguine as to the results of the Agency, only saw the work be~un. I shall never forget the date of my visit to Ottaw~, for there thIS heart-rending teleb"ram reached me , " Montreal , 23rd March 1867, MR. GREENSHIELDS died this morning." The necessity for re-writing the whole of the historical portion of the Repo~t, a~d~d to the time required for authenticating the statements contamed III It, have delayed its publication until now . •JAMES CROlL. MORRISBURG, ONT., 1st December, 1867. CHURCH AGENT'S REPORT, FOR THE YEAR 1866. IN the month of February, 1865, your Committee saw fit to offer me the appointment of Agent for the Schemes of the Church, and, in March following, I commenced a personal visitation of each Con­ gregation. The nature and extent of the work preclude the possi­ bilityof entering into minute details; besides, having already, in the pages of" the Presbyterian," gone over, though in a very hurried and imperfect manner, a considerable portion of the field, it seems unnecessary to burden this Report with topographical description and incident of travel. Though thus shorn of what might have proved in some degree interesting or amusing, it is hoped that the plain facts submitted may not be without a prasent value, and furnish as well memoires '}Jour servir for the future historian. The Statistical Tables annexed, and the brief historical sketch given of each Con­ gregation, may, for our present purpose, sufficiently illustrate the progress and position of the Church. Our Congregations,126 in number, are scattered over a distance, from East to West, of, in round nnmbers, 700 miles. The actual distance travelled in reaching them has been close upon 12,000 miles. That this should have been traversed in little more than a year, without inconvenience or bodily fatigue worth mentioning, is in itself a significant fact and speaks well for the means of communication in our new country. That it was done at an expense so small as . scarcely to be entitled nominal is due very much to the liberality of the Grand Trunk Railway authorities, who, during the whole time, provided me with a free pass over all their lines of Railway in Canada, and also to the kindness of friends everywhere who pro­ vided transport from place to place as occasion demanded. It may be proper to state the plan and purpose of these visits, 8 which, though slightly varied according to circumstances, were es­ sentially the same in all. Each minister, previous to my coming, was requested to call a meeting of his Congregation, and the mana­ gers were asked to furnish a statement of their receipts and dis­ bursements, for all purposes, for the then past year. Latterly, prin­ ted Schedules were made use of and with good effect. Commend­ ing and encouraging where there appeared even the smallest room for doing so, pointing out in a friendly way apparently defective management, and, receiving from some, hints likely to be of service to others, I placed before each Congregation the present position and requirements of the Church at large-explained the nature and ob­ ject of its various Schemes, the urgent need of more liberal support -suggesting, as the best mode of attaining this end, thorough or­ ganization and systematic management. It gives me pleasure to state that in every quarter I was well received. I must not, how­ ever, leave your Committee under the impression that your Agent drew crowded audiences. The meetings were, for the most part, thinly attended. In this, perhaps, I may have been considered in some places rather fastidious, yet, in view of the object to be ac­ complished, and the improbability of a like effort being soon repeated, my regrets must be acknowledged to have been reasonable.
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